this dreaded cold...

I can't shake it. It seems to get worse and then plateau and get a lil bit better and then plateau and then worse etc. Vicious cycle.

I'm going to the doc today but it remains to be seen how that may help. I don't know if it's an infection or just a really nasty cold. I'm half hoping he signs me off work for another couple of days.

Andy says I just like giving in my notice and quitting jobs, but I guess I'm just really ready to be in the states and not mess with politics at work anymore. It's so daft really-- when I was at Crewe, there was the hell of the two blokes with their heads up their bums, but there was a real sense of comraderie and friendship there-- you could have a good laugh with most of the staff and on the Enquiry desk there were always 2 people (sometimes it was even 3) one in Ref and one on Enquiries, but most of the time there weren't any Ref things to do so you at least had someone to help you or someone to talk to-- whereas at Congleton, it's much more serious, the staff have less of a sense of humor and you can't even see the Issues counter from the Enquiry desk, so when you're on the Enquiry desk (which they call the IP -- Information Point), it's extremely lonely, and somewhat stressful when you have several people who need help -- and the silly thing is that they only have one computer with access to the catalog on there, so if there is a queue, and you buzz the person in the workroom to come out and help, they can only do certain things, or they have to take the people to a computer at the other counter to serve them. And this isn't going to change (I've brought it up a couple of times) because of the cost of running another Galaxy line to the desk, plus the fact that some libraries don't even have as many Galaxy pcs as they need for everyday use, much less for when you have a queue (which isn't that often, really...) so I was told it won't change.

Man I'm good at whinging when I'm ill. And according to Andy I'm ill all the time.... so I should be a professional whinger instead of a librarian. It's perfectly logical.

Get me outta here.

Posted by kristen at November 11, 2004 9:15 AM